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Smoother dashboard typefaces might enhance driver safety

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Sometimes when you're driving along and you see some school kids trying to attract you to bring your car to the makeshift car wash they've assembled to raise money for gymnastics, or JV football or Boy Scouts...you want to stop and tell them that nobody can read a sign written in pencil when they're driving past it at 30 mph.

Researchers at MIT are focusing on the same thing. They're looking at how much time it takes us to read our own dashboard displays. And they believe that tenths of a second can mean the difference between driver safety and potential distraction consequences.

In recent tests, researchers with MIT’s AgeLab have found that dashboard displays using the more open and differentiated lettering found in the...

Same idea goes with navigation devices, yes, the face plate is made of glass and yes, it will reflect when you are trying to read something from it when it's sitting on the dashboard. Think!!!! Maybe using anti-glare such as the ones used in Rx eyeglasses work!

Same idea goes with navigation devices, yes, the face plate is made of glass and yes, it will reflect when you are trying to read something from it when it's sitting on the dashboard. Think!!!! Maybe using anti-glare such as the ones used in Rx eyeglasses work!

Someone is just now noticing this? Common sense. All vehicles have shiny dashboard and yes, it's a problem for drivers. Somehow we managed successfully to not let it distract us. If you put a windshield or any type of glass, and the sun hits it, sunlight will reflect! This is not rocket science folks.

how about instill some values in drivers so they will not eat, text, yack and do all sorts of things behind the wheel but instead, gasp, actually DRIVE and pay attention to the roads and those around them?

GasBuddy must really like this article as it is now the third day it has appeared on this blog. One should drive their car, not play dashboard games with all of the useless information that some nerd thinks is cute so the price of the car can be jacked up to kill more people.

This probably plays a very small role in the grand scheme of things. But when hundreths of a second can make the difference between life and death; or serious injury and minor injury then it's good they are doing this research.